Course contents

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5)  (8 hours)

Core Java EE

• Java EE 5 Platform Overview
• Java EE Platform – Distributed Multi tiered Applications
• Java EE – Web & Business Components
• Java EE Containers – services & types
• Java EE Application Assembly & Deployment – Packaging Applications, Java EE modules
• Getting Started with Web Applications
• Model View Controller (MVC)2 Architecture & Packaging EJB Module

Application Deployment  (3 hours)

• Web application development and deployment Steps
• Configuring Web application – Web application deployment descriptor (web.xml file)
• Web Application Archive (*.WAR file) – *.WAR directory structure
• Building & Deploying Applications, Ant build tool

Advanced Java EE – Web & Business Components Development

SERVLETS (5 hours)

• Servlet Overview
• Life cycle of Servlet
• Handling Client HTTP Request & Server HTTP Response
  • Practical (Hands-on Working Examples)
• Initializing Parameters & ServletContext
  • Initializing a Servlet
  • ServletContext initialization Parameters
  • ServletContext Attributes (Context binder)
  • Practical (Hands-on Working Examples)
• Session Management, Request Dispatcher & Redirecting
  • Practical (Hands-on Working Examples

JSP (5 hours)

• Overview of JSP
• JSP Architecture & life cycle
• Components of Java Server Pages
  • Practical (Hands-on Examples)
• Implicit Objects & Standard JSP Tags
  • Practical (Hands-on Working Examples)
• Scope of JSP objects
  • Practical (Hands-on Working Examples)

JDBC (4 hours)

• JDBC Overview & Architecture
• Step By Step Usage of JDBC API
• Connecting to Oracle 10g XE Database in Java
  • Practical (Hands-on Working Examples)
• Prepared Statement & JDBC Transactions
  • Practical (Hands-on Working Examples)
• Developing Web Application with MySQL / Oracle 10g XE Database by implementing Java Beans, DAO’s & MVC2 Architecture

 Enterprise Java Beans (EJB 3.0) (10 hours)

• EJB 3.0 overview & Architecture
• Features of EJB 3.0
• About Session Beans
• EJB 3.0 Persistence Programming Model
• Java EE Application Assembly and Deployment – Anatomy of EJB Module & Packaging
• Java Persistence API
• Designing a Java Enterprise Application
• Developing EJB3 Module using Stateless, Stateful Session Beans & Entity Beans. And creating an Enterprise Application Project using Eclipse Indigo 3.7.1 + JBOSS v5.0 + MySQL 5.0

Frameworks  (10 hours)

Struts2

• Struts2 Basics &  Architecture
• Struts Request Handling Life Cycle
• Struts2 Configuration,  Struts2 Actions,  Struts2 Interceptors,  Struts2 Results,
  Struts2 Value Stack/OGNL
  • Practical (Building Struts2 Framework Application)
• Struts2 Tag Libraries
• Struts2 XML Based Validations
  • Practical (Building Struts2 XML based Validation Application)
• Struts2 Database Access

Hibernate (10 hours)

• Introduction to Hibernate, ORM Overview, Hibernate Environment
• Hibernate Architecture & API, Hibernate Configuration,
• Hibernate Sessions, Persistent Class & Mapping Files
• Building Hibernate application, Hibernate Query Language (HQL)
• Hibernate O/R Mappings – Collection & Association Mappings
  • Many-to-One
  • One-to-One
  • One-to-Many
  • Many-to-Many
• Implementing Hibernate in Java Web Applications using Eclipse Indigo 3.7.1 + JBOSS v5.0 with MySQL 5.5
• Hibernate Annotations

Spring    (20 hours)

• Introduction to Spring Framework Architecture
• Bean Definition, Bean Scopes & Bean Definition Inheritance
• Spring IoC Containers, Understanding inversion of control (IoC) – Dependency Injection (DI)
• Spring Setter Injection, Spring Constructor Injection
• Ioc in Action
• Architecture of Spring Web MVC Framework
• Spring MVC Getting Started – constructing web MVC application using Spring Framework, AbstractController in Spring MVC
• Spring MVC Controllers hierarchy
• SimpleFormController, Spring DAO design pattern

Build Tools  (4 hours)

• Ant
• Maven

Test Driven development  (6 hours)

• Overview of TDD
• JUnit
• Jmokup